Revision ExercisesTOP TIPS

There are many ways to revise.

Choose the right way for you!

You have a particular learning style and you

should revise using the techniques that will

be best for your learning style.

Remember you are either a Visual, Auditory

or Kinesthetic learner.

Visual Learners:

Visual Learners

Maps

Posters

Charts

Spider diagrams

Cartoons

Summary notes

Mental Pictures

Auditory Learners:

Auditory Learners

Record ideas

on tape Say keywords

aloud

Tell another person

Make a presentation

Get someone

to test you.

Exchange ideas with

your friends

Play quiet, relaxing

background music

Kinesthetic Learners:

Kinesthetic Learners

Walk n’ talk,

Draw cartoons,

Posters etc.,

Make a

model,

Role play/

Drama,

Make a Mind Map,

Write a story,

Where should you revise?

•Warm

•Well lit (a reading lamp

reduces eye-strain)

•In a quiet room

•Have a clock or watch

nearby (time your revision

sessions).

How should you revise?

How to plan your revision:

Have a definite finishing time

Plan regular breaks

Get up and walk around

during your break

Drink plenty of water

Have a tick list of topics to

cover

Gradually aim to summarise

your notes.

How should you revise?

Start with a Revision Timetable

https://getrevising.co.uk/planner

• How to create your revision timetable

• Get all the information you need - this includes your exam dates, lesson

timetable, shifts at work and when you’re meeting your friends.

• Block out the times you can’t study - be realistic, if you’re not going to

work before 10am on a Sunday block that time out.

• Pick a revision start date - pin down a day to get started and think about

your revision priorities. Some subjects and topics will take longer than

others.

• Plot your revision sessions - decide how much time you’re going to

spend on each topic and schedule in breaks.

How to Revise

What kind of person are you ?

Some students are early birds.

They will definitely want to use the

morning session.

Late risers will avoid mornings

like the plague !

Night owls will do their best revision

in the evenings.

Put yourself into the right frame of mind!

RELAX

Take deep

breaths

Bop till you

dropMeditate

Go on a mental

vacation

Talk It Through With Someone:

Some people just love to talk. In fact, they need to talk in order to get

information and ideas clear in their mind. So talk it through.

With a parent With a friend With a teacher

Discuss the topic together

Ask the person to explain it while you listen

Explain it to them while they listen

The Night Before

Check your TIMETABLE

What time is the exam ?

Where is it ?

Equipment check

Pens, pencils,ruler,erasers, calculator

(carry spares)

Final revision

If you still have work to do then do it

immediately, but leave some time at the end

of the evening to relax

The Final Countdown

On the day of the exam:

AN EARLY RISE !

Eat breakfast

Allow plenty of time for your

journey

Arrive at the exam room early!

About 15 minutes early

Check your equipment again

Bring the correct equipment!

•Pen (and a spare)

•Pencil

•Ruler

•Rubber

•Sharpener

•Calculator (for Maths and Science)

Once you are sitting in the exam hall

Check your equipment. If anything is

missing speak to an invigilator

Make sure that you can see the clock.

Make sure that you know what time the

exam starts and finishes

Make yourself comfortable. If the desk

wobbles pack it with a piece of paper. If

the chair wobbles ask for another. If

there are distracting noises speak to the

invigilator

Positive Thinking – I CAN do this!

Positive

Thinking

This is a chance to show everything I have

learned

This is my chance to achieve

I am capable of doing very well in this exam

I deserve to do well, because I have worked

hard

I know what is expected of me in this exam –

Everyone expects me to do my best!

I am well prepared

Reading The Paper

Read all the instructions several times

If you do not understand - ASK

Make sure you know how many questions

you need to answer

Check to make sure that you have a

complete question paper

In each subject your teachers will have given you

specific instructions. Remember what they said!

Mind maps

http://www.mindmapping.com/

• Think of your general main theme and write

that down in the center of the page. i.e.

Food

• Figure out sub-themes of your main

concept and draw branches to them from

the center, beginning to look like a spider

web i.e. Meats, Dairy, Breads

• Make sure to use very short phrases or

even single words

• Add images to invoke thought or get the

message across better

• Try to think of at least two main points for

each sub-theme you created and create

branches out to those

Flash cards

https://collegeinfogeek.com/flash-card-study-tips/

Annotated diagrams

Use a Flow Chart

Food

Digestion

Nutrition

Energy

Flow Chart 2Macbeth brave hero in

suppresing Cawdor’s

rebellion

Macbeth ambitions

for crown

Duncan arrives at

Macbeth’s castle

Macbeth has vision of

dagger

Macbeth kills Duncan

Macbeth to become

King

Macbeth

Duncan makes Macbeth

new Thane of Cawdor

Duncan makes his son

Malcolm Prince of

Cumberland

Witches prophesy the

future of Macbeth and

Banquo

Lady Macbeth schemer and

ambitious. Wants Macbeth to

be King

Lady Macbeth puts

pressure on Macbeth

Malcolm and Donalbain

flee for safety

Macbeth fears

Banquo

Banquo suspects

Macbeth

Brainstorm

Non-

Renewable?

Waste

products?

Available ?

Clean ?

Renewable ?

Industries

that use

them.

Environmentally

friendly ?

Energy

Source

Mind Maps

All on one

page

Brainstorm

Make ideas

visual

Can

replace

notes

Can connect

ideas

Interlocking circles

CHARACTERS CONNECTED BY THE THEME OF LOVE IN JANE EYRE

Theme

of

LOVE

Bertha

Mr RochesterJane

Eyre

St John

Rivers

Rosamund

Draw a StoryboardTry sequencing your ideas through drawings on a storyboard. Each sketch shows a

key idea or significant moment. You don’t have to be an artist. Quick sketches and

stick figures are ideal.

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 5

Revenge his foul and most unnatural

murder

To be or not to be ?

Act 3 Scene 1

HamletGhost

Hamlet

Doodles

Identify the key

points that you wish

to learn

Create a drawing to help you

fix these key points in your

mind

Eye

Nose

Whisker

MouthEat

Feel

Smell

Scowl

See

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Verbs Nouns

Spider diagrams

LIGHT

RAYS

DIVERGING

INCIDENT

RAY

REFLECTED

RAY

REFRACTIONCONVERGING

REFRACTIVE

INDEX

MAGNIFICATION

Colour It

Forces

Genetics and

Inheritance

Environment Waves and

Radiation

Write key points on

coloured card or bits of

coloured paper

Arrange the items on the floor or on a table in a

way that makes sense to you. Turn the pieces

of paper over to use as flash cards to test

yourself

Patterns of

Chemical

Change

Mneumonic

Create a tongue twister to sum up the key ideas from a

topic - For example:

Macbeth murdered many men madly

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

OR

Create a poem using words or phrases which need to be

remembered.

Charting progress

Causes of Industrial Decline in South Wales

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Clock Sequence

A way of connecting key points to an idea or mental picture that is already familiar to you. For example

a clock face can help you sequence key ideas. You don’t have to have twelve items. It’s the thought

that counts. You can remember different parts of the topic as hours on the clock.

9 o’clock - APOLLO 11 first

man on the moon - Neil

Armstrong - 20/7/69

12 o’clock - SHUTTLE - first

re-usable space vehicle

4 o’clock -

GAGARIN - first

man into orbit -

12/4/61

2 o’clock -

SPUTNIK -

4/10/57

1 o’clock V2 rocket -

WW2 at Peenemunde

11 o’clock

SKYLAB -

USA

spacestation

AnnotationDulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

(9) Gas ! Gas! Quick boys! - An

ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the

clumsy helmets just in time;

(2) Knock-kneed , coughing like hags, we

cursed through sludge,

(5)... Many had lost their boots, But

limped on, blood-shot. All went

lame; all blind;

(11) But someone still

was yelling out and

stumbling

(23)…, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable

sores on innocent tongues

(17) If in some smothering dreams

you too could pace

(21) If you could hear, at every jolt, the

blood come gurgling from the froth-

corrupted lungs

(3) Till on the haunting flames we turned our

backs

(19) And watch the white eyes

writhing in his face, his

hanging face, like a devil’s

sick of sin;

(16) He plunges at me, guttering,

choking, drowning

(14) As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my hapless sight

(7) …; deaf even to the hoots of tired

outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind

(27) The old lie : Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria

Mori

Book markGreat

Expectations

- Dickens

Make a

bookmark with

important

information

written on it

and keep it in a

magazine or

book that you

are reading for

pleasure.

Glance at the

bookmark each

time you start and

finish your leisure

reading.

Walk n’ Talk

Take over a room in your house.

Use different bits of furniture for different bits of the topic

Bed - the

main

character in

a novel

Write bits of

information

about the

character on

pieces of paper

and lay them on

the bed

The floor is

the plot

Other pieces of

furniture or

areas of the

room can

represent other

characters

Walk n’Talk

You can also use

different rooms in

the house to

represent different

ideas

toilet

main

bedroom

lounge

my bedroom

kitchen

To learn the ideas walk around the room or house, looking at the

points you have written. Say them out loud; point to each piece

as you speak. Use lots of arm movements

When we revise we remember:

20% of what we read

30% of what we hear

40% of what we see

50% of what we say

60% of what we do

90% of what we read, hear, see, say

and do!